The abbé’s voice hardens as he demands names — the men who destroyed Edmond Dantès and his father. Caderousse, cornered by conscience and the priest’s quiet authority, speaks the truth at last: Fernand and Danglars. One driven by love, the other by ambition. Together they forged a lie.

In the warm glow of Dantès’ betrothal eve at La Réserve, Danglars wrote the letter — disguised in left-handed script — while Fernand slipped it into the post. It was a jest, they told him, a harmless prank. But when the soldiers came the next day, Caderousse saw the truth he’d helped conceal. Fear kept him silent as his friend was taken away, his silence sealing Edmond’s fate.

And across the table, the abbé trembles — for every detail confirms what Faria once foretold: how envy and weakness weave the threads of ruin.

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